Essays on Family Relationships

Introduction

We all know how difficult it can be to express you and ensure that we are understood by those, who surround us in our professional environment. Business environment demands respect and high level of tolerance from all of us, outlined by the corporate rules, strategies, culture and the expectations, which are we as peers and our superiors have in this situation. Such expectations make communication process in a way, more structured and easier to adjust to the existing norms and formal rules, set out by organizational hierarchy and cognitive and emotional behavior regulations. Politics and diplomatic tone in our ...

Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. African American literature frequently reveals the suffering of people who live in the world full of racism. The Western society used to put African American people in unfavorable conditions throughout the whole history and life in this condition may lead to tragic circumstances. The following essay concerns the story named “Sonny’s Blues” which was written by James Baldwin. It will discuss the main themes of the story which are struggling of people who live in the ...

According to Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco and Hanson (2014), family dynamics refer to the patterns of interactions or relations between family members. Kaakinen et al. (2014) revealed that each family system often has unique dynamics. Nonetheless, this aspect usually affects the manner in which the members of a particular family views medical care. Such a claim has been confirmed across different media. A good example is The Fighter. Produced in 2010 by David O. Russell, the movie follows the lives of two characters; a professional boxer called Micky Ward and his elder half-brother. It is right to inform that ...

Managing diversity in the business management context

Ethnicity and discrimination based on gender in the labour market have been highly prevalent in recent years with many nations and their governments searching for alternative strategies and developing policies to reduce it. Education has for so long been perceived as the only avenue through which this menace can be addressed, and policymakers have been trying to regulate it in such a way as to offer equal opportunities to all individuals. There has been a marked improvement in registration into institutions of higher learning by young BME people in recent years in the UK. This is mainly fueled by ...

Family has always been very important for every individual. The main principles of the family are stable and cannot be changed; however, many aspects of family relationships are constantly changing in view of the large variety of social, economic, and other reasons. Typical modern family is not the same as it once was. The recent five decades have seen a significant divorce rise, substitution of marriage by the cohabitation, “blended” families of either heterosexual or gay design, and born out of wedlock children (for example, over 50% of all children of African-American origin). It proves a change from the ...

Spousal abuse is defined as any abusive conduct, whether a single instance or several instances and discrete or regular, between sexual or intimate partners who are married, living together of even dating . It is often treated interchangeably as domestic violence which is how most legal frameworks address spousal abuse. Domestic violence is defined as any act that causes bodily harm, physical harm, or emotional harm conducted against a family member . The interchangeability of definition with domestic violence can diminish the nature of and the extent of victimization involved in spousal abuse. An intimate sexual relationship like marriage has a ...

William Shakespeare started his famous Hamlet’s monologue with a question “To be or not to be?”, when the young man had to reconcile to his lot or to stand against the evil. In the lecture “What’s the Right Thing to Do? Episode 11: The Claims of Community” Michael Sandel puts up the burning issues of justice, loyalty and responsibility. It is a true dilemma what to choose: family relationships or those of the community. However, it is claimed that all the laws are combined to form an individual’s character. The laws are not a promotion of ...

Inductive Thematic Analysis

Introduction Drug crimes are increasingly becoming a major concern on both local and global fronts. Current research (Braun and Clarke, 2012) suggests that the thematic analysis of important data sources such as sentencing remarks would facilitate the efficacy of available strategies in these crimes. The purpose of this assignment is to analyse the themes that comprise the societal understanding of the occurrence and penalties of drug-related crime. The researcher uses information from seven courtroom sentencing remarks from Adelaide, Southern Australia. This inductive thematic analysis identifies overarching themes that are evident across all seven documents. The themes include “gender and ...

Literature Review

Companies have been looking into broader perspectives which go beyond the 4p’s of marketing since the 1970’s . In the modern day, employee customer interface is a concept that is being considered by most businesses. This concept affects the people involved in the business processes and how they interact with each other. This was first implemented through service and marketing and merged both the marketing and the management departments . The employee customer interface assists the company to shed light on other aspects of the business such as service customer and service marketing, among others. The employee's experience at ...

The American family unit is currently undergoing a number of drastic and dramatic changes that are a concern both to the social systems of society and the criminal justice system. The changing face of the American family in terms of function and structure, for instance has a significant influence on delinquency and delinquent behaviors. Due to these changes currently being witnessed in the American family, the link between the family life and delinquency has become a critical issue in the contemporary American society. The extended family has, for the most part of the family structure, replaced the nuclear family ...

Internal Management

Definitively, motivation can be understood as a psychological state that compels or encourages action towards the achievement of certain goals or objectives. It is an inner drive to act in a certain way (Psychology Today 2014). In organizations, today managers are increasingly faced with the task of motivating employees to better their performance and consequently, the organizational performance as a whole. Lindner explains that employees are not only motivated by financial rewards; employee attitudes towards their work and the reward systems in place (Lindner 2014). Studies conducted by Mine (2007: 28) suggest that managers can effectively motivate their staff by focusing ...

Introduction

It has been documented by many researches that various forms of adversity are at the heart of many mental illnesses. Indeed, even the term mental health recasts a social problem as a psychological and medical one. And, as would be expected, people addressing multiple forms of adversity, poverty and disability and social exclusion adversity, for instance, are likely than others to seek, or be sent to mental health services. While violence is the most common experience for people with severe and long-term mental illnesses, it is far the only adversity at issue. This can be addressed through open dialogue. Open dialogue ...

This is a question that films like Raging Bull and The Godfather Part 1 attempt to answer. These films feature "bad" boys who resort to socially unapproved and criminal behavior and still seem to get away with it. In a world where societies make the rules, perhaps their appeal lies in their ability to bend and break those rules. Nevertheless, there are reasons why they seem so untouchable—reasons that have to do with their immediate context, their thinking and their values. This paper will attempt to analyze those reasons. The film Raging Bull (1980) is arguably a film about lust, ...

Personal Strategic Plan

Personal Strategic Plan The guiding principle and consequently my mission and vision of my life is to be the best I possibly can and being a source of inspiration to everyone that I meet. I also aim to create a positive impact on the people around me. In summary, I am determined to make sure that I attain full success in both my professional and personal life.

Personal and Professional Goals

In line with my mission and vision, I am majoring in Business administration with the goal of working for Saudi Aramco. I also intend to further and improve my education and acquire masters ...

Mexico is a country that is located in the Southern part of North America. It is pre-dominantly Roman Catholic with at least three quarters of the population being Catholics. In addition, most of Mexico’s religious rituals and beliefs are decided by the catholic calendar. The Mexican society is rich in rituals, traditions, culture and religion. The Mexican culture is taught from generation to generation through songs and dances as they value their historical background. Therefore, Mexicans never forget their background and culture even when away from their home country. The Mexican culture advanced during the 19th and 20th ...

Our Mutual Friend is a novel written by Charles Dickens. It is one of the most known challenging and fictitious works by Charles Dickens with a group of characters. Our Mutual Friend is a novel that has a wide range of minor characters that are used for a variety of purposes in order to make the story complete. Dickens’ uses these minor characters in many instances in the novel, especially when there is a situation that needs to be solved or something has happened. The minor characters helps build the plot in the story and are used to present the main themes of the novel ...

Introduction

Human nature demands utmost satisfactory from everything and everyone around us. The demand towards satisfaction dictates the relationship we have with other people. This feature is developed involuntarily as people create relationships from different perspectives and preferences. The existence of these relationships is greatly dependent on the kind interaction we have with people. Regardless of this natural selection, a healthy relationship is created by the inclusion of numerous factors that promote human satisfaction. For instance, kind and polite people tend to have numerous relationships as compared with rude and cruel people. The nature of the interaction determines the extent of ...

Family is considered to be one of the most important aspects for any person in his life. It is the family that determines the crucial factors and parameters regarding the development of their children and his turning of as an adult. Families help in defining the identities in a given society. It helps in realizing the feeling of belongingness and the importance of each and every individual in a given family. They are the ones who will support each one of us during the happy and sad moments in our lives. They provide the necessary comfort and warmth so that ...

Introduction

The Chelmsford Hotel is the small family oriented hotel located in Melbourne. This hotel is developed by the two brothers Jeff and Chad Mitchell. This business has grown with the interest of the owners in work and efforts. The hotel consists of 163 guestrooms and offer valet parking services, housekeeping and manages maintenance and administrative tasks. The Garden terrace restaurant is also part of their service in which they offer to dine, room service, catering service and organization of events. In the hotel, there are around 130 to 140 employees while, for the restaurant around 35 more employees are ...

Legal and Ethical Issues of Substance Abuse and Addiction

Substance abuse and addiction has for a long time already been a topical issue in many countries around the world. Schools are important sites, where governments and various organizations concentrate their preventive efforts, as it is a key of health promotion in these institutions. It is important to realize such prevention programs in this environment, as schools provide its students with important models of behavior, various possibilities to bond with people of different interests and views (Strang et al., 2012). National research of tobacco policies in schools in different developed countries show that the prevailing majority of institutions have adopted policies ...

Living with a child with special needs can have profound effects on the entire family, including the extended family members, siblings, parents, and the child. It can affect all aspects of family functioning, since they have to be on the watch for the child. On the positive side, living with a child with special needs can expand horizons, develop family cohesion, increase the family members’ awareness of their inner strength, and promote connections to community groups. On the negative side, this child will need time, physical and emotional demands and financial cost in order to make the child’s life comfortable. ...

Analysis of Everybody's Fine (1990) Everybody's Fine is a 1990 Italian film, released on 31st may 1991, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. He also wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Massimo De Rita and Tonino Guerra.

Synopsis

Frank Goode, a widower living in Sicily, makes lots of adjustments after losing his wife one year ago. The toughest adjustment that Frank experiences is to sustain his associations with his 5 adult children. The children are scattered all over Italy working in what Frank trusts to be liable jobs (De, Niro, 19). Frank’s wife was like a substance that held the family together and ...

The children are at a risk of suffering a heart disease if the disease is genetic in the family, and this underscores the need for the family nurse to ensure familial risk assessment is done for precautionary purposes (Arar, Delgado, Lee and Abboud, 203). The cold temperatures may also pose health risks such as common cold to all family members. The family diet may also pose a health diet if it is not healthy. Lifestyle-related health risks such as obesity may result if one or more of the family members do not exercise adequately. The family has health potentials such as living ...

Introduction and definition of elder abuse

Psychological and physical elder abuse Literature review: The empirical research Conclusion - Practical implications.

Abstract

This literature exploration investigates abuse among elderly in the society. The focus will be on psychological and physical abuse. Even through many other forms of abuse co-exit along with these two types being addressed in this document a sociological analysis regarding the emergence, perpetuation and function of psychological and physical elder abuse within society will be highlighted. These will be reviewed embracing a paradigm that disrespect from the younger generation, social structures and marginalization among this group has produced such social dysfunctions in our ...

PTSD War Veterans and Their Families

PTSD War Veterans and Their Families

Introduction

On January 2nd, 2013, an elderly war veteran in Las Vegas was charged with two murders after he allegedly killed two women with more than 20 blows to their heads with a hammer. His ex-wife reported that he had alcohol and drug abuse issues, and during their marriage, he would often beat her or attempt suicide. According to his medical diagnosis, he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. This type of scenario is common among war veterans with PTSD because they will more likely engage in domestic violence than war veterans ...

In human perspective, a family is a group of individuals associated by affinity, consanguinity or co-residence. In most communities it is the key organization for the children’s socialization. Anthropologists most usually classify family organization as matrilocal (a mum and her kids); conjugal (a couple and children; also known as the nuclear family); and consanguine (also known as an extended family) in which a father, mother and the children co-reside with either the members of the father’s family or mother’s family. In this study am going to talk about strategies utilized to juggle career and family and how most families distribute household ...

Abstract

Drug addiction is not only common in men but also in women. However, it does not happen accidentally. Certain factors influence women’s engagement in drug initiation and even addiction: natural physical susceptibility; personality measure of women; peer relationships; family relationships; marital relationships; social media and marketing; discrimination; acculturation; socioeconomic condition; and victimization in sex and prostitution. These factors have different influencing ways upon women. Likewise, the effects these have upon women have varying degrees as well. Seeing these factors does not only imply knowledge of the issue, but brings forth the need to deal with it. The ...

Introduction

Family relationships is regarded as one of the important glues that keep the entire society together, it is traditionally known as the key holders of social cohesion. Over years, changes such social developments, education, industrialization and spatial mobility have had major revolution on the position of family as an entity of the society. Many family issues have emerged and are subject of ongoing frequent global debates, particularly the effect of media on its cohesion. Social scientists havestruggledto come up with various explanations on distinct changes of on these family relationships as a result of media and their entire potential effects ...

Introduction

Slavery was an institution that began before the formation of the United States and was an unfortunate part of the early history of the nation. The Constitution included the paradoxical combination of a Bill of Rights as well as provisions that allowed slaves to be calculated as three-fifths of a free person for purposes of taxation and representation. African natives were captured from their native lands and sold as part of a three-way trade triangle, along with sugar and molasses, that comprised one of the ugliest phases in American history. Even though they were in the land of liberty, slaves were denied ...

The modern world is dominated by technological influences that have seen a change in the lifestyle and behavior of man. A comparison is always made on how the day-to-day life of man is being influenced by the technological developments. This has different impacts on people depending on how they handle the changes. Observing the behavior displayed by man, one can only be amazed at the power of how technology has turned man from being a naturally social creature to a machine like individual. Robert frost is one of the modern poets who has observed the changing trend in man even with the ...

The basic purpose of auditing is to provide an assurance to users of financial statements that the statements are free from any material misrepresentation made to intentionally or unintentionally. Auditing therefore requires the auditor to determine credibility of financial statement and this means that an auditor should also be credible. The credibility is enhanced by being, a person of integrity so that the publican have trust on the audit work, he should be competent meaning he should posses professional skills and qualifications so that he can carry out his work with due care, he should be secretive and should only ...

Introduction

At some point in history there emerge people who contribute immensely in the advancement of a particular field. Claude Levi Strauss and Clifford Geertz are two such men whose contributions in to the field of anthropology cannot be understated. Claude Levi Strauss (1908-2009) was a French ethnologist and anthropologist. He is commonly referred to as the “father of anthropology”. He famously argued that both the “civilized” and the “savage” human minds have the same structures and that human characteristics are the same through and through. He is a structural theorist who has contributed several theories in the fields of sociology, philosophy and ...

“You just don’t understand your heritage.” (Walker, 1973) This line from Alice Walker’s 1944 short story “Everyday Use” pretty much sums up and perfectly depicts the conflict that arises between clashing of cultures and the factors that influences transformations of them. Culture, as Dr. Dennis O’Neil says, undergoes continuous change and “exists only in our minds” making it much easier to leave behind and get a new one. (2006) But just how much of our adopted and inherent culture can we lost? And how much change is enough? The 2011 film “From Prada to Nada”, a Mexican-American ...

Plea/Verdict: Not guilty by reason of insanity/Guilty but insane (GBI)

Total Days in Jail: 248 Present Offences: The defendant has been found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, burglary, and possession of Schedule I drugs. Penalty Range: O.C.G.A. § 16-5-1 (d), felony murder; punishable by death, by imprisonment for life without parole, or by imprisonment for life. O.C.G.A. § 16-5-21 (c), aggravated assault upon a peace officer while the peace officer is engaged in his or her official duties; punishable by imprisonment for not less than five nor more than 20 years. O.C.G.A. § 16-5-40 (b), kidnapping, victim received bodily injury; punishable by life imprisonment or by death. O.C.G.A. § 17-10-6.1, kidnapping ...

Plea/Verdict: Not guilty by reason of insanity/Guilty but insane

Present Offences: The defendant has been found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, burglary, and possession of Schedule I drugs. Penalty Range: O.C.G.A. § 16-5-1 (d) states that, “A person convicted of the offense of murder shall be punished by death, by imprisonment for life without parole, or by imprisonment for life.”

Circumstances of Offenses

The defendant was found guilty of kidnapping Ms. Uma Opee and stabbing her 13 times until she bled to death, a felony murder. At the time of his arrest, the defendant was extremely agitated and irrational, and he assaulted the arresting officers, yelling, “I am God, let ...

Family relationships describe the interactions and associations of two or more individuals who share a common relation. A family presents to us challenges and happiness, stress management, behavior control and understanding well our emotions to communicate effectively with the most significant individuals in our lives (Salmon & Shackelford, 1). In our lives we are required to keep a good relationship with our family members and ensuring that the means of communication are always kept open. According to the story Everyday Use by A. Walker, the mother who is the narrator of the story talks about her two daughters’ divergent notions about ...

Discussion Paper:

"For decades, I pretended everything was normal"

Discussion Paper: "For decades, I pretended everything was normal"

The article For Decades, I Pretended Everything was Normal (Mayoh, 2011) discussed how a 43-year old Australian mother Bronwyn Marquardt has been suffering from depression since her early 30s. As defined by the George Mason University (2007), “depression is a disturbance in mood, thought, and body” and is characterized by different levels of guilt, self-doubt, hopelessness, loneliness, disappointment, and sadness. Throughout this period, Marquardt has been diagnosed with postnatal depression and major depressive disorder. Postnatal depression is the depression that arises in the months after childbirth (Oakley & Malik, 2011) while major depressive disorder ...

Abstract

The family, as an important social institution, has formed the foundations of life for many centuries are exposed to all sorts of change based on dramatic events in the society. Undeniably, changes within the environment have played a major role in altering the normal functioning of the family. Simply put, change is a ubiquitous aspect in society and hence, it should be expected in any facet or level. Transformations and changes within the family are evident in areas such as occupation, fertility, childbearing, divorce, separation, family relationships among others. This paper supports the idea that change within the family institution is ...

1. For many people, finding a middle path is one of the more difficult parts of life. It is often easier to embrace one extreme or another, rather than seeking out the tenuous middle ground and keeping to it. In the short term, we are often drawn to a more extreme pattern of behavior; over time, though, we rebel against its limitations and want a way to maintain balance. This is what Gotama referred to as the “middle way,” and during the course of Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha moves from being a confused boy to a wise man who, ultimately, earns the right ...

22nd July, 2011

Outline

1. Important Factors Influencing Moral Cognition.

2. Prediction of changes in social cognition across the lifespan.

3. Prediction of lifelong interaction styles influenced by parenting behaviors and attachment opportunities in infancy.

4. Explanation of friendships and family relationships changes over one’s lifespan.

5 Important Characteristics of a Healthy Family Life.

Abstract

Cognition has been summarized by many schools of thought in psychology to be adaptations to the moral as well as social environments within the home and wider society from a mental perspective called the mind. It is believed to have begun from birth and further research shows ...